Shoot Your Novel: Cinematic Techniques to Supercharge Your Writing

Want to write a visually powerful novel? Shoot Your Novel takes an in-depth look at cinematic technique for fiction writers. No other writing craft book teaches you the secret of how to “show, don’t tell.”

Best-selling authors of every genre know the secret to hooking readers—by showing, not telling, their story. But writers are not taught how to “show” scenes in a cinematic way. Without a clear, concise, and precise method for constructing dynamic scenes, a writer will likely end up with a flat, lifeless novel.

Filmmakers, screenwriters, and movie directors utilize cinematic technique to create visual masterpieces, and novelists can too—by adapting their methods in their fiction writing.

By “shooting” your novel, you can supercharge your story!

Sol Stein, in his book Stein on Writing said, “Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.” Novelists today—regardless of genre—need to learn how to write cinematically because that’s what readers want!

Inside, you’ll learn:

• The real secret to “show, don’t tell” and how it’s all about “the moment”
• More than a dozen “camera shots” novelists can borrow from screenwriters and directors to create powerful, active scenes
• Instruction on how to piece camera shots together to create cinematic scene segments
• Examples from novels and screenplays showcasing each facet of cinematic technique
• How to devise a thematic image system of key shots, motifs, and images
• Ways to use colors, shapes, sounds, and angles for purposeful subliminal effect

Shooting your novel with a filmmaker’s eye will transform your good novel into a great one and will change forever the way you approach constructing your scenes. No other book gives you such deep, thorough instruction in cinematic technique for fiction writing.